The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-12-02
CURRENT EVENTS.

A Methodist Church Is 10 be built at
Newport this winter.
The Chrlsman will case, appealed from
Lane county, was argued In the Supreme
Court last Tuesday, About $Too,ooo Is In.
volved In H.
The w. u. has announced a reduction of
rates on the Pacific Coast. Anywhere In
Oregon, California, Nevada and Washing.
ton Territory. The maximum rate will be 90
cents for ten words and cents for each nd.
dltional word
The heaviest individual taxpayers OF
klamath county are Amoa Shook and sons,
and the amount OF their assessment $7S, a6f.
Forty houses were burned Ia a fire at po-
trero, Cal, last Friday.
La Fulton county, Ca, Prohibition was
defeated on Saturday by tao majority,
oyoo votes being cast. The negroes voted
against prohibition. This Is what Is called
the Atlanta election.
Gladstone will visit the u. s. next Spring.
This grand old man would be given an i'm
mense reception. May ne come.
The new residence OF DIR Shelton, at Eu.
gene, was burned Saturday night. loss,
about $S,ooo Insured for $1,000.
In a fight at Fort Smith, Ark, last satur.
day, between two Deputy Marshals and
several desperadoes, one OF the Marshals, a
man and a woman were killed, and two men
wounded. II was enc of the bloodlest nf.
fairs on record
In the race between Hanlan and Beach
in Australia, last week, the latter won by
two lengths. Hanlan, notwithstanding. made
about 5000, and though beaten three times
continues to think himself the best man.
reemer can beat Beach.
At Redwood City, CAL. last Tuesday X s
Smith, editor Of the 7isses aud Gdseffs was
shot and Killed by DR. l. Il Powell, on &C.
count Of charge made by the former In
his paper that the latter had defrauded a
widow out of money paid for town water
The suit Of o N Denny agt ! q Dodson
TO recover possession of eight lots In Airing
ton, was last week, decided By Judge Deady
In favor of the plaintiff This was test
case and will give Judge Denny possession
10 about half of Arlington.
An Indian mother on the Umatilla reser.
vation awoke enc morning last week. says
the Easf Oregoaias, TO find a cat sitting on
the bosom OF her baby sucking away al It's
mouth. Upon investigation the baby was
found 10 be dead, the cat having sucked It's
breath away In is efforts 10 get the milk on
the lips and In the throat Of the child.
AT New York Herr Most, the anarchist,
was found guilty on Tuesday, OF uttering u
reasonable speech. Following Is little OF
his past record, according 10 hts own state.
ment "was imprisoned for treason In
Austria in 1869, and again In 1870 was
Imprisoned In Germany In 1879 for calling
the emperor a slaughterer, and sentenced
again for a speech made In Berlin In 1881 :
was sentenced In England To eighteen
months imprisonment for applaudlng the
killing OF the Car"
A man named westfall. .hailing from Ore
gon City, Is under arrest At Los Angeles, for
crushing a three year.old sons skull with a
| club. Westfail took the boy out with him,
and when a short distance from the city, he
picked up a club and crushed In the skull Of
the little fellow and left him. When arrest.
ed he acknowledged his brutal work, and
stated that he had made up his mind to get
rid of the boy who was troublesome and cost
too much money 10 support. Public indlg.
nation Is high. A person who knew him IN
Oregon City says that WeStialls mind i
poorly balanced and that he was extremely
cruel and brutal TO his family. Une Of hts
children Is cared for by Clackamas county.
l-Ex.
On the night of Oct. nth. at as King
road, Chelsea, an extraordinary shaving
match against time was decided, Teddy Wick
the champion barber, was backed 70 shaw
fifty persons In sixty minutes for GIs side
He actually shaved seventy-seven In fifty
nine minutes and fifty-three seconds, anS
! thus won the stakes. In the first quarter o
an hour be disposed OF twenty -one men
In the second. fourteen In the third, nine
teen and In the last fourteen minutes ant
fifty-three seconds &c put on aspuFt" n
finished of twenty three. e.--Loados Tss'
graph